AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
Ethical dilemmas in the area of advanced robotics and artificial intelligenc
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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
Ethical dilemmas in the area of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence have seemed
like a distant matter left to the scope of science fiction movies. However, with their reality in
sight, it is time for these ethics to be explored seriously. Having resigned ourselves to the fact
that ethical decisions such as life and death decisions will be undertaken by machines, the next
best thing is to try, to the furthest extent possible, to design algorithms with a clear and pure a
moral compass which can form the “morality engine” for these intelligences. Coming up with
such a morality engine will necessitate the synthesis and collation of the entire world’s populous,
to create an amalgam of moral code that can then be written into the core autonomous vehicles’
algorithms to enable computation as to the ethical decisions they can make. Self-driving cars will
thus make ethical decisions concerning life and death according to the moral limits, parameters,
and tolerances that a majority of people can live with. I propose that, in navigating the minefield
of moral artificial intelligences’ actions and decisions, the morality algorithms will largely be a
set of parameters that represent the collective altruistic sentiments of people balanced by the
option to have some form of control in the event of life-threatening situations.
Car buyers, the primary stakeholders where driverless cars are concerned, are faced with
a number of conundrums. No one would be disposed to buy an autonomous vehicle whose
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